Maavadu Pickle Recipe-Vadu Mango Pickle-Mavadu

Preparation

Wash mangoes well 3-4 times.Trim the long stems. Spread it on a cloth and air dry it under the fan inside the house.The mangoes should be dry and free of moisture.

Powder the rock salt in a mixie and keep it ready.

In a bowl, mix salt, chilli powder and turmeric powder well.

Method

Take a big jar or plastic bucket, add 1 layer of mangoes, then add a layer of salt + chilli pwd + turmeric pwd mix.

Then again a layer of mangoes and top it with chilli pwd+ salt+turmeric mix. Keep on layering it until all the mangoes are over. Close it and keep it aside.

The next day shake the container well or mix it with a dry ladle so the the spices get mixed well with the mangoes. Mix well with a dry ladle twice a day (both morning and evening).

By the 3 th day, the mangoes would have oozed out lot of water.

Take 2 tsp of mustard seeds and grind it with a little oozed out water and add it back to the mango pickle.

Mix it well twice everyday (morning and evening) with a dry ladle.

It is ready for use after 10 days.Even after that you have to mix it well everyday. The longer the mangoes soak, the tastier it will be. Mine was perfect and tasted great.

Note– I use only rock salt for all my pickles as it is free of the additives. Powder the rock salt before using it.

Choose baby mangoes with stem as those without stems are mostly picked up from the ground and is not suitable for making this pickle.

Do not use spoiled or damaged mangoes as it will spoil the whole lot.

Traditional measurement – For 8 measures mangoes – 1 measure crystal rock salt and 1/4 measure chilli powder.

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